Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:54:38 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Tseng <joe_tseng@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring Message-ID: <20081010185438.GA40860@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <BAY117-W12F038ED445086170210BE9B350@phx.gbl> References: <BAY117-W12F038ED445086170210BE9B350@phx.gbl>
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:49:44PM -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: > > I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a single .tar.gz file. Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do this? "gzip *" will do what you want. When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it, but will emit a warning that it's doing so. Otherwise, you could use something like: find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip Which would do the same as "gzip *", but would ignore any files with a .tar.gz extension. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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